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Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 65

Delay In Licensing New Air Services

The Land · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 2

Reason for the delay In licensing new air services in the country was given by the Minister for Transport (Mr, O'Sullivan) when replying to the…

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Hotel shooting report false

The Sun · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 3

Police and ambulance men who rushed to Belfield's Hotel, corner of George and King streets, this afternoon,…

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Barman Killed In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 7

A 43-year-old hotel barman was killed while trying to prevent a man…

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Typhoon Causes Havoc in Manila Roof Torn Off Hotel Two Vessels Run Aground

Daily Mirror · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 5

MANILA, Friday.--Manila was paralysed yesterday by a 90 miles an hour typhoon. The roof was torn off the city's largest…

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Quiet Day In Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 December 1947 · page 7

Few city hotels opened yesterday, and many in the suburbs opened only for a few hours in the…

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Publican Committed on Shooting Charge

Truth · Sunday 28 December 1947 · page 8

AN estrangement between a publican and his married daughter, because of her declared love for a married man who worked in the hotel, was…

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Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 28 December 1947 · page 11

AT the suggestion of the president of the U.L.V.A., Mr. Connolly, nearly every Sydney hotel closed on Boxing Day…

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£900 Taken From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 December 1947 · page 6

GISBORNE (N.Z.), Monday.—Thieves stole £900 from a country hotel at Matawhero, near Gisborne,…

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£900 Taken From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 29 December 1947 · page 6

GISBORNE (N.Z.), Monday.--Thieves stole £900 from a country hotel at Matawhero, near Gisborne,…

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Woman's Body in Fibre Trunk Man Charged After Grim Hotel Discovery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

A woman, who was married for a second time two weeks ago, was found battered to death in a bedroom of the Hotel Burlington, at the corner of Hay…

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Hotel Where Murder Discovered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 5

The Burlington Hotel, at the corner of Hay and Sussex Streets, Haymarket, where the body of Mrs. Annie Kathleen Sturrock, 51, wife of an inspector in the Maritime Services Board, was found yesterday in a large cabin trunk in a bedroom. The bedroom is at the rear of the building (indicated by arrow)…

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Woman's Body in Trunk Battered In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

The battered body of a woman was found yesterday in a cabin trunk in a bedroom on the fourth floor of the…

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Lottery Poser for Hotelkeeper

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 2

Has he won the lottery or hasn't he? This question now presents a poser for Mr. J. R. Charlton, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Wombat, a hamlet of 250 people, between Young and Cootamundra. WHEN spoken to over the phone this morning by the…

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Man Charged in Hotel Trunk Death Case Story Of Threats

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

POLICE alleged at Centra! Court today that a man charged with the murder of a woman at a city hotel had…

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Steward Charged with Hotel Murder Alleged Threats To Husband Woman's Body Put in Trunk

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 2

POLICE alleged at Central Court today that a man charged with the murder of a woman at a city hotel had admitted his intention of also murder…

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Body Was Found In This Hotel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

THE, HOTEL BURLINGTON, corner of Hay and Sussex Streets, City, where the body of Mrs…

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Lottery Poser for Hotelkeepep

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 2

Has he won the lottery or hasn't he? This question now presents a poser for Mr. J. R Charlton licensee of the Royal Hotel, Wombat, a hamlet of 250 people, between Young WHEN spoken to over the phone this morning by the…

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Man Charged in Hotel Trunk Death Case Story Of Threats

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

POLICE alleged at Central Court today that a man charged with the murder of a woman at a city hotel had…

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Man Charged in Hotel Trunk Death Case Story Of Threats

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

POLICE alleged at Central Court today that a man charged man the murder of a woman at a city hotel had…

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Lottery Poser for Hotelkeeper

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 2

Has he won the lottery or hasn't he? This question now presents a poser for Mr. J. R Charlton licensee of the Royal Hotel, Wombat, a hamlet of 250 people, between Young and WHEN spoken to over the phone this morning by the…

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